Garment-supporter clasp.



R. A. MOORE.

GARMBNT SUPPORTEB CLASP.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 61908.

' 922,799., Patented May 25, 1909.

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ROSWELL A. MOORE, OF BERLIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WATERBURY BUCKLE COMPANY, OF WATERBURY,

CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER CLASP.

Application tiled tuly 6,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ItoswnLL A. Moonn, a Citizen of the United States, residing at Berlin, in the County oi Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Improvement in Garnient-Supporter Clasps; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the aerom# panying drawings and the numerals of relierenee marked thereon, to he a full, Clear, and eXaot deseription of the saine, and which said drawings constitute part ot this speoification, and represent, in-

Figure 1 a view in lront elevation of a garment-supporter Clasp Coi'istruoted in aoeordanee with my invention. Fig. 2 a view thereof in vertical section. Fig. 3 a detached view in inside elevation of the outer jaw` Fig. LI a corresponding edge view thereof.

My invention relates to an improvement in garment-supporter clasps, the objeot `ieing to produce a simple, Compact and convenient Clasp ol superior gripping power.

In carrying out my inventi n I turn the lower end of the outer `iaw 2 inward and upward and back on itself so as to form an in tegral but yielding lip 3 which, in the Gonstruetion shown, einheds itself in the rorrugations of a rubber pad #l mounted upon the outer face of' the lower end of the inner jaw 5. T he said inner and outer jaws may he of any approved construction. As herein shown Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1909.

Serial No. M2036.

they are operated by a iinger-lever 6 having trunnions 7 passing through perforations in ears S turned forward at a right angle from the side edges of the inner aw 5. The said lever 6 when swung upward into its Closed position draws the two jaws together 'and looks them in their Closed and garnieiitgripping positions against the tension created by embedding the yielding lip 3 in the rubber pad el. The inner jaw, as shown, is provided at its upper end with. a wire loop 9 by means of which the elasp is suspended from webbing or tape as the ase may he.

I claim:-

In a garment-supporter clasp, the eoinoination with two jaws one of which is provided at its lower end and upon its inner laoe with a yielding lip, of a rubber pad looated upon the lower end ol'v the inner face ot' the other jaw for oo-aetion with the said lip which einheds itself in the pad, and a ngerlever pivotally Conneoted with the inner jaw f and fao-acting with the outer jaw for forcing the two jaws together' and looking them in their rlosed positions with 'the said yielding lip in the ru bloei' pad.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specioation in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROSVVELL A. MOORE.

A. M. YvI/"HALON, DARRAGH DE LANonr. 

